Hanna Levenson, Ph.D., has been specializing in the area of brief psychotherapy--as a clinician, teacher, and researcher--since 1979. She is clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, and the director of the Brief Psychotherapy Programs at California Pacific Medical Center and the VA Medical Centers in Palo Alto and San Francisco. She also teaches time-limited dynamic psychotherapy at Stanford University School of Medicine, and has a clinical practice in San Francisco and Oakland.